I'm going through the rhymes and songs in the booklet that goes with the DVD Spraoi le Chéile and in Leibhéal 2 (though I'm not sure I'm there yet) there's a rhyme called - Cuitse! Cuitsiú! Are they just nonsense words or does the sound approximate to something in the way Cniogaide, cnogaide or Gugaillí gug does? Would it have anything to do with - curtsey - by any chance?

Cuitse! cuitsiú
Rincfidh na cearca é
Cuitse! Curtsiú!
Rince na ngeafairí.
Geafairí óga is geafairí críonna;
Dá mbeadh geafairí eile ann
Bheadh lán tí againn
Cuitse! Cuitsiú!

Cuitsí, cuitsiú (is there a mistake here?)
Rince na ngeafairí.

merci
Franc

I am not sure what Cuitse, cuitsiú means but it might not be even a word, sometimes in irish songs random sounds are thrown together example rol de dol di di do rol de dol di di do.

Rincfidh na cearca é- the hens will dance it
Rince na ngeafairí- the dance of the geafairí
Geafairí óga is geafairí críonna Young geafairís and old geafairís
If we had one more geafairí
We would have a full house

When I first looked at it I thought geafairí was Girraffe, but sioráf is Girraffe.

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Thank you for translating it - I did understand it more or less, but it's very nice of you. I've found out that geafairí are busybodies.
I thought críonna meant wise but I imagine that it's used here as the opposite to óga.

Here's how they play it -
Cluiche do pháistí óga é sin. Téann duine acu síos ar a ghogaide, buaileann sé a dhá bhois ar a chéile agus tosaíonn sé ar an rann a rá. Téann sé ag léimneach timpeall an urláir agus é ar a ghogaide i gcónaí. Déanann an chuid eile acu aithris air féachaint cén duine is fearr a dhéanfaidh an cleas.

críonna - Means both. It's assumed as one gets older one also gets wiser.


I could be wrong, but maybe "Cuitse / cuitsiú" is said to hens when calling them.

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sounds like "goitse" ie. "tar anseo" i nGaeilg Thír Chonaill :-) Ab é sin "cuitse" a úsáideann sibh i gConamara?

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Ní hé. Ní chuimhníonn cén focal anois. Bíonn focla airaid dona cearca, focla diffrúla do ghéabha, srl.
Beadaí Beadaí Beadaí le géabha cheapainn. Níl mé cinnte. Ní raibh cearca ná géabha riamh againn anseo, le mo linnsa ar aon nós.

D'fheadadh sé gur leagan do "goitse" atá ann freisin.

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seidh, i mBriotáinis fosta



deirtear go dtig "goitse" as "gabh tusa anseo" (giorraithe) ach níltear cinnte.

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Tiuc ! Tiuc ! to call hens? (Sounds like "Chook! Chook!" - hens are called "chooks" in Australia )

Tiuc is also cuit backwards.

Cuit is used for "Shoo! Scat! Go away!", but from the context of the song cuitse sounds like an imitation of the sound hens make while feeding.

What is a rooster's call in Irish? "Cock-a-doodle-doo" in English, "cococero" in French (?), "kokekokkou" in Japanese. My roosters seem to alternate between the rhythm of cock-a-doodle-doo and kokekokkou - They are confused birds.


This is not so surprising if you have a farm. It is better to use a different call when feeding each type of animal. That way when you make that call only that particular type of animal tends to come (in theory at least - my sheep would come running to the gate as soon as I called the hens because I always fed them in that order ).

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